More Media Madness- The Science Behind the Method

Here, we will connect the dots regarding how the media connects and serves the negative narrative of Black people all across the country, what they say, which methods, where to post them, and how to punish those who go against it.  Now before you dismiss this as something trivial, please take note and read this. Seriously. Read it. It will make a lot of sense.


What you will see in this link (as well as several screenshots) is a detailed and dated method of defamation that could be used by the media and is often parroted by the likes of Fox News, CNN, and any other media outlets used for said purposes.  The screenshot provides capita based statistics about African Americans, asks people to post "barbaric content" from Africa, as well as providing e-mails of reddit's advertisers regarding why the massive hate ring (as spoken about in "The CooneKKKtion " blog entry) is doing this. The first screenshot is an introduction by person who started this particular wave on August 6, 2015.

They would also e-mail a letter to all of the reddit advertisers as listed in this pic and remind them of all of the various types of porn subreddits including those related to incest, bestiality,and pictures of animal genitalia.

They included fake per capita based statistics on pedophillia:

, benefits or "free stuff"   given to Black people:

violence,

slavery,

Fake Black Culture and unemployment

As you can see, there is a lot of time, money, and resources invested to the point where people will buy servers to fill with propaganda and gossip. They will blackmail, harass and stop at nothing to keep the cycle of victimhood and hate going to the point where they will kill. And in their spare time, they will watch it and create it through various media outlets.  This is why we need to control our own narrative and not let anybody take it or get a hand in it.  Black Lives Matter could have done all of that and they could have done it right. But nah. Sandra Bland died in jail because of a $500.00 bail. A fund that BLM should have paid, or at the very least said something about. Eye Empress was arrested as a Black Lives Matter You Tube personality for threatening to kill White people. When this happened, they said that Black Lives Matter was "just a hashtag". They followed Hillary Clinton until she asked them what was their game plan, and said that you can't change the hearts of people.

They created Campaign Zero's website. Then they said they weren't affiliated with any politician.

The Black Lives Matter organization had no counselors for people dealing with the deaths of their loved ones. They went on world tours to talk to all of the people about Ferguson, but did nothing to help them. All of the people responsible for the issues in Ferguson are still in office, with the exception of more Black faces. Nothing has been done. They collected money. That's it. 

Not only that, but they're back peddling on being referred to as a movement. They're "a network" now, but they were referring to themselves as "a movement" before.  Let's look at the word "network" and what it means. When people look to "network" that's what they do in order to be taken into consideration for a job or position in a company. They're a company now. They have well known faces investing in them (Jay Z and Beyonce). 


People have been saying they've been bought since 2014, but now they're starting to catch on this year. In 2014, I began to notice that nothing in Ferguson was going to change.I was irritated when DeRay went to Baltimore and protested there. I was upset when people were traveling all over the world as if they were begging for solidarity. The same people in Ferguson are still in office, and the're still perpetuating a large level of corruption throughout the city, outlining St. Louis municipalities, as well as the entire state.

That's been the problem all along. They collected a bunch of money and stayed at square one. And they used Black Lives to do it. And when they were called out in 2014, they weren't interested in being transparent about where their money came from. 

It took me some time to write this. It took me a good while to deal with the information I had gotten. I've been angry for two years now.  I hate how they left Sandra Bland high and dry for five hundred dollars. They stayed silent for Eye Empresses situation which could have been prevented if Black Lives Matter had any counselling services on hand. They could have at least done that instead of helping to run people through the same crooked justice system that put the people in the situation in the first place. 

They could have done that at the very, very least.

On That Beyonce Video Called "Formation":

So people are going wild over Beyonce's video, and some are not enthused. I see why people are excited: They're excited because she showed people that its okay to accept themselves (complete with big nose and natural hair) regardless of respectability politics. She addressed the gossip around her and her family. She said there is nothing wrong with being from the South, and Black at the same time.  The imagery in the video got people so riled up, it was enough to cause people to want to boycott the Superbowl.

You'd probably think I'm going to tell the boycotters to GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE With That Mess, but I'm not.  In fact, I don't think I even need to tell you why because if you've been following my blog, you already know why. Be that as it may...

I can definitely support what she's saying. But Red Lobster gets no love because they don't actually cook their food. They use microwaves to heat it up, and you could buy the biscuit mix at the grocery store (which is not the point of this discussion, so I'll stop being petty). 

BUT just because people are buzzing around her song doesn't mean they are distracted. They're just happy to see all of that Blackness for one night. Sure, the Superbowl in general is not really my cup of tea, but her performance was what people like myself wanted to see, and since I don't care for sports, I went straight for the performance, no commercials, no fluff, and I clicked the play button. 

And it was glorious! Here's why:

Who knows how  many Black women she will get to finally accept themselves all the way? She might even get women to stop getting plastic surgery in order to conform to Eurocentric beauty standards.

Plastic surgeons will see a dip in their profits, and they could quite possibly end up with zero Black customers. Black modeling agencies and photographers will pop up and will showcase Black features in all their entirety. Its only a matter of time when we see no more 'strange lighting' that almost always needs an 'explanation'.  This could be the end of Black makeup tutorials where the makeup is several shades lighter than the actual complexion of the woman. 

Black people with "Jackson 5 nostrils" will no longer feel some kind of way about having a wide nose.  How many little Black girls and boys will see the clean version of her video and will feel comfortable with their Black features, because we all have that one family member or 6 that has something crazy to say about Black features as if they never saw a mirror in their entire lives? I'm talking about:

• That one relative who claims they're light skinned when they're complexion is looking like a Hershey's Special Dark Chocolate bar. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with dark complexions, nor is there anything wrong with light complexioned Black people, or dark chocolate. I'm just calling out those fake light skin-ded folks who always have something extra to say about different Black skin tones (you know who you are).
• That one relative who tells you your baby came out light, or that your baby has 'that good hair' as if that's a badge of honor.

• That one relative who tries to give you tips or tricks to prevent that baby's nose from getting too wide, or has to help you not get 'too dark' when you're busy being a kid in the summer. 

I can't help but respect Beyonce for clapping back at people like those since they are responsible for passing down and or fostering anti-Blackness in Black families. Getting at them was long overdue, and let's face it. Those of us who have clapped back at their own family members who say stuff like that are still looked at kind of funny. Maybe its wishful thinking on my own part but if a famous person busts back at them in a different format and it reaches them then it could be possible they won't have shit else to say since somebody else is saying what you've been trying to say all along.

On the other hand, I see why people are not enthused as well. That money her and her husband earns comes from mainstream media. That's the same media that won't endorse Black artists for real. But that's okay. We learned the Oscars aren't for us, and they won't ever be. We learned the Grammy's aren't for us either, nor is any award given to people at the discretion of gatekeepers who are out of touch with the audience, or the people doing the creating (I'll give you a hint. Those gatekeepers ain't us.).

And donating to Black Lives Matter was a bad move on their part because that establishment isn't doing anything for the people in Ferguson. In fact, the last thing they did was endorse Hillary Clinton, whose husband is responsible for the same high incarceration rate Blacks are more susceptible to being on the wrong end of. That same high incarceration rate is what kept the government of Ferguson and other St. Louis municipalities shaking down the citizens. The fact that Clinton stood her arrogant ass up in a Black church in Missouri so she could tell the people "All Lives Matter" will not be swept under the rug any time soon with me.  Black Lives Matter also created "Campaign Zero" which is supposed to be a "blueprint" to hold police accountable (which had already been attempted during the unrest in several cities across America, most notably, Ferguson and Baltimore, even though it has become common knowledge that one must be able to trust the officials in power in order for accountability to take place, and it had become painfully clear that Ferguson's government is completely rotten to the core, right up through the entire state of Missouri. 

That's why I can't fault people for being mad at them for donating to DeRay and Company like that either. Yes, Jay Z and Beyonce are in the music industry, but she did use her platform for positive Blackness as well as clean up the gossip for their family. They also bailed out the kid in Baltimore who was being held for five hundred thousand dollars as well as some Ferguson protesters with no thanks to Talib Kweli after he raised $112,600 through the Ferguson Defense Fund through Indegogo even though $35,000 was donated to MORE, which left $77,600 unaccounted for. He went on to say, 

“We gave $35,000. That still leaves a lot of money. So you all know what happened with the rest of the money, we gave $3,800 to Fellowship Of Reconciliation. We’re in the process of funding several youth organizations on the ground. We’re going to vote on the rest of the funds very shortly.” 

I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but after subtracting $3,800 from $77,600, that still leaves $73,800.  That's still a lot of money. Where did it go? Hmmm.

That being said, I don't consider  myself a longtime fan of Beyonce's music like that. I don't even own any of her albums, and I haven't listened to her music since Destiny's Child.  But she did what she was supposed to do with Formation. No mainstream Black artist has even dared to bring up what she brought up, especially on nationwide television during a time where the most people would be watching the same event. That takes some serious ovaries.

At the very least, in Beyonce's defense, you can't win for losing and vice versa.  Just ask Cam Newton. The media did him so wrong, and people still showed him love. There was no mention about Cam being a bad team player on my feed unless it was people going to bat for him. Men and women went to bat for Cam, but Beyonce was a whole different story. The women were there for her, but men... not so much. I fake wonder why that is. Anyway, that's another topic for a different time. 

She still slayed though. 

Flint Water Crisis, Ferguson and What They Have In Common (I'm late, I know)

There seems to be several things in common with this water crisis: The local government in St. Joseph, LA was given six million dollars to fix their infrastructure so the people would have clean water. Since that hasn't been fixed, the money was supposed to have been frozen, just before an internal audit was supposed to take place, and it is now under federal investigation. 

Flint had to have been given money to fix theirs. 4 million was supposed to have been invested in a new water plant in Detroit.

In Ferguson, and nearby municipalities (yes... that's a different issue, but bear with me), there were complaints regarding over policing, and multiplying fines to the point where there are more warrants issued than people. 

In Bridgeton MO, there is a poorly attended landfill that has radiation so high that if a person were to take a sample of soil 6 inches below the surface, the radiation levels are off the charts. The people in the area don't drink the water. There is noticeable steam coming off of the soil. People can't sell their houses. Audits in Missouri were to be taken place before all of this was discovered, but after the death of ‪#‎MikeBrown‬, the auditor turned up dead. 

One of his findings was twenty eight city officials were caught embezzling money in Jefferson City, MO.

I strongly believe that any injustice or reason why things are the way they are in these areas is because of fraud, embezzlement and possible racketeering. 

So my question is.... Which officials will turn up dead, get transferred to different positions or different states/counties/municipalities, etc? Every time somebody steps down/transferrs/retires, etc there is a reason for it. I suspect they were involved in some sort of illegal activities and they want to cover it up by playing retirement, transfer, etc.

Population Control, Abortion, Planned Parenthood, etc

Disclaimer:

Okay, I know I'm about to come off as a Pro Life conspiracy nut waiting with baited breath outside of your neighborhood clinic to call a woman a hoeish heathen in so many words with the title I chose for this blog entry, but please hear me out because it's not even like that, I promise.

That being said,

In our beloved woke community, there is much buzz regarding Planned Parenthood and the use of abortion to commit genocide against our people. Many people are very upset about the fact that a woman, a BLACK woman would want to deny the life of her future Black baby whose going to have a Black life in a Black neighborhood, and go on to make Black babies in their distant future. The very act of destroying that Black baby is genocide because Black women are supposed to make sure they don't have a baby they can't take care of. They are supposed to not have sex until the right man comes along. They are not supposed to have one night stands, they are not supposed to have any recreational sex at all. They're supposed to keep their legs closed and their eyes open, in which to find herself a king. A Black king, especially if he is woke because that will earn her the rightful spot at the the highest tier on the Hierarchy of  Blackness Scale © . 

Well, I'm here to say one thing. It's one thing to abort a baby for the sake of aborting one, but if we want to talk about how planned parenthood is a scheme to commit genocide to our people, then we must talk about protection. Yes. You heard that right. One must wrap it up if they don't want any unwanted babies. The man  must protect himself from bringing unwanted babies into this world. Unbeknownst to a lot of people, Planned Parenthood offers birth control as well, and if she wants to use planned parenthood in order to get birth control, then that's her businesses. But if a person is anti-Planned Parenthood, then one must take the necessary precautions in order to avoid this establishment like the plague:

This means making sure you don't help bring any unwanted people into this world, because in the end YOU will be helping to raise a child, be it through DCFS or through co-parenting, or both. 

This means going to your local drugstore and purchasing some condoms with spermicide on them, and spermicide for the woman to use as well.

This means respecting the woman's decision when she says no. 

This means it is not solely on the woman to make sure a man can  control himself enough to where he doesn't get anybody pregnant, which is entirely up to his discretion simply because a woman can not own a man's penis, nor can she take responsibility for it or the man attached to it. That is his job and nobody else should have that task put upon them. No woman can make him insert his member inside her no matter how enticing she may be.* 


You must view it like this: All of your seeds have the potential to be a future king or queen. Therefore, you must be careful with your seeds, and you must make sure that young seed has what they need to flourish, There are so many unwanted children who were born out of circumstances that no child could grow up in. That needs to stop.  Control your seeds, and you control your population the way you would like it to be controlled.  And this can be done without the help of corporations with ulterior motives. 

To make a long story short, stop walking away from your children. Control your population by raising the little kings and queens you bring into this world. Give those babies what they need to survive. Love them. Breathe life into them. Don't let the only life you bring into their world be the sperm you used to impregnate her.  He who effectively controls their population can control their world. Period.


*If she does, then that's rape and it should be dealt with accordingly, ESPECIALLY if a potential child becomes the product of said incident.

Taking Back Martin Luther King Jr's Legacy

Every time January 18th comes around, I often wonder what kind of Black shaming articles will surface, and to what degree will they be spread throughout the internet.

Now to the majority, this will be another year where we endure the money draped gossip spread against us through a person many of us have revered.
This year is different. I am compelled to discuss how we were effective in taking back his legacy.

During the aftermath surrounding Mike Brown's shooting in Ferguson, we endured people using MLK's legacy from people trying to shame us into behaving how they thought we should behave. If a person wasn't careful in recognizing this pattern, one would believe that would have been the point of celebrating Martin Luther King's legacy to the point where white nationalists have gone so far as to buy a domain geared solely for the demonization of Martin Luther King and his legacy.  Even after the website in question had been outed as an illegitimate source, they will still take their time trying to defame him.  But not anymore. During the unrest in Ferguson,  so many people clapped back with his quote "A riot is the language of the unheard" to the point where articles like this one was created, claiming that his image has been corrupted by social media.

Even though his legacy is still undergoing attempts at being tarnished by those who are anti Black, it has become evident that people are still neglecting the reasons why he had to protest in the first place. 

This lead me to believe the same people who decry the corruption of his legacy by social media are the same ones who failed to recognize the cause of the violence in Ferguson. 

These are the same people who believe the turbulence happened out of the clear blue. These are the same people who thought everything was fine until "they" brought up race. 

These are the same people who view themselves and people who look like them as innocent and could do no wrong.  

These are the same people who glossed over the violence of White people during Martin Luther King's peaceful protests.  

Long story short, if the documented violence of the state and the violence of White people past and present didn't exist, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, and many other noted Black activists would not have needed to protest because the issues would have been non existent. 

And the Ferguson unrest would have not happened because the environment there, and many other places in the United States would not have taken place. 

And that is what Martin Luther King really meant when he said that non violence would be the greatest weapon of the Negro. Because all of the violence that White people had inflicted upon them past and present would be glaringly strong. And it is strong, but many of us haven't been looking at it from a different angle due to justified anger and frustration of the whole thing.  (Please remember I'm not saying roll over and take that violence that has been given to us.I'm just saying they'll never be able to use his legacy against us again because the evidence regarding White violence is all there.)

After seeing this and making all of the pieces of the past fit with the present, I came to this conclusion:

Martin Luther King to anti Black people is like Jesus for conservative politicians. They like the idea of him, but don't actually advocate for the things he actually said or taught and would more than likely hate the actual person.

That being said, Happy Martin Luther King day. Take this time to celebrate any way you see fit. And also, please remember to financially boycott that day, and re-divert your dollars to Black owned businesses. 

And remember. Watch this video and pay special attention to what Martin Luther King says at the 3:15 mark. Aside from Martin Luther King dressing 'properly' and being non violent, this is why it won't keep you from getting arrested or murdered. I see you, RZA.

Random Thought #10 On Film, Soundtracks, and Black Music

Every so often, I'll watch a movie. And when I watch a movie as a music fan in general, I have to hear the soundtracks. For me, a great soundtrack could make or break a movie.  As predicted, a bad soundtrack, could really piss me off and make me become highly uninterested in a movie or show no matter how good it might be.

For example, Check out this trailer for The Interview:

This trailer is laced with Black music, and so is the entire movie. But the context of the songs is so very wrong. What does EnVogue's "Free Your Mind" have to do with anything in the movie? I saw this film and all I came away with was, what does Syl Johnson's "Is It Because I'm Black" have to do with the main characters walking up to the fortress?  That song is a very heavy song that was done unjustly by inserting it into a movie that falls into a comedy genre.  This had some great potential, but all of the misplacement of Black music, and the fake Black slang was a huge turnoff for me. I had to give it one star in hopes nothing like that would show up in my Netflix feed ever again. 

Another instance is the Deadpool trailers. Here's the first one

Here's the second one:

What does Salt N Peppa's "Shoop" have to do with the trailer? Does he sex somebody down in the movie?  In this case, I 'd have to see the movie to find out, but I suspect it doesn't fit in the entire movie. That placement of Shoop really turned me off. 

It's like the people who use Black music in their movies have no concept of context. It's like they go, "Dude! Here is a really cool Black song to put riiiight here! It'll be, like sooo awesome!"  Except with The Interview, they decided to create something of a White Blaxploitation film sprinkled with horrible slang.  It's like they don't really know anybody whose Black for real, and they had no Black writers, but somebody told them to "Black it up and make it feel more, ummm urban, ya know? Kay, thanks guys!" And a lot of the films have just one Black person in them. I don't remember if there were any Black faces in The Interview, and I probably won't see Deadpool because I'm an asshole like that when it comes to soundtracks. 

All I ask is for some accurate context for the placement of Black music in these films, especially if the show has no Black people in them and has Black music recklessly strewn throughout the entire thing. 

Am I asking too much?  Knowing the history of this sort of thing, I probably am. This is another reason why we should hold on to our own and not be so quick to "sell" them our stuff, because this is exactly why they can't have nice things. 

****Update: So I checked out Deadpool, and Shoop fits because of the relationship he has with his woman. I won't spoil it for you, but you'll get why they put it there if you go see it. 

On Gossip and Money

I wanted to write about something from a different angle.  I decided I'd tackle gossip and money and how it relates to racism. See, everybody in America comes in contact with  some form of media everyday be it TV, social media, magazine, advertisement,etc.  We have an idea of the purpose of media and how it works. We know the mainstream media outlets can be very bad, especially if you're Black in America. Black people  know the media is racist, but we don't really understand what the point of racism is and how it affects us, and why. I've gone in extensively on the blog regarding supremacy and how it's tied to respectability politics. Now I'm going to tie it in with gossip and money.

Take a look at this story, and watch the video.

This video has over two million views. I won't lie. I watched it too. But I noticed two things about videos like this:  The first thing is the fact that many people will see this and say disparaging things about her because of her presentation. Some people will turn her into a joke.  In fact,this could be why the video has over two million views in the first place. I used to see videos like these and get mad because they serve as joke material for people who express anti black sentiments. Then a light came on and I figured the following:

The people running all forms of mainstream American media are like children on the playground when it comes to Black people. It's like little kids pointing and laughing while huddled around a crude drawing of a penis. The crude penis drawing (which is represented by what they think Black people are) gets televised.   If you include money, then this is what the masses will get to see. And that's what gets them laughing.That's why things like that video become highly publicized "stories" . It's the same reason why videos designed to highlight so called 'negative characteristics' in Black people are just gossip dipped in money. That is their main focus. It could also explain why any time a Black person is put in the media for all to see, there will always be racist comments for viewing purposes at the end of the article or video.

This is also the same reason why WorldStarHipHop exists. The person who created it knew what the people want to see, and they wanted to monetize it. And unfortunately, a lot of Black people bought into it (there's that supremacy again!).

But the second thing I noticed was that the effect of this video is also the exact opposite of the first:
The woman in the video speaks like she's cool with everybody and anybody. She isn't afraid to be herself. So many people are afraid to be themselves, and that's why respectability politics exist. I can respect her for her candid-ness.  I can respect anybody who can present themselves as they are regardless of who is in front of them. 

So I'm glad I got to see the video. It gave me a chance to write this blog and shine some unpredictable light on mainstream American media and what they're trying to do. 

So if you're tired of negative images of Black people in the media, our only choice is to change our perspective so it doesn't match theirs, question mainstream media's motives, create and/or support our own media outlets designed to mold our own great narrative as a people, and keep it moving. 

2016: New Year, New hopes, New Life

TL;DR: Another New Years Post.

What can I say. This year has been hectic. So many things have happened to me to the point where I don't know what's going to happen between now and the summer. I have no idea where I'll be. I hope to be in a better place financially, and become grounded, since I have been recently uprooted. I'm reinventing my life. I've had the chance to ask myself what I needed to do to change myself for the better. I looked really deep into myself and I found ugly subconscious things that explained my past self. It explained my thinking, and it lead me to where I'm at today, and I'm so grateful for the experience because its making me a better person. But don't get it twisted. I'm not recanting anything I wrote in these blog entries. There's no way in hell I should be sorry or remorseful for any of it, and I will not let anybody tell me otherwise.

Now that I got that out of the way:

I'm glad for what I learned because it enables me to help others. My goal is to be able to break everything down in a way that anybody could understand as long as they learn, and actually think about what they are told regardless if was written by somebody with multiple academic accolades. I want to be able to clearly explain it to someone without said accolades and not have them miss a beat. Once I could effectively do that, then I will teach others (that is if I haven't already because I have no idea who is reading this blog or not).

However, I can't say I know all because that is impossible. I keep finding out new stuff everyday, and to be honest, that new stuff keeps me grounded and on my toes. I like it that way because once a person gets stagnant, then that's how a person becomes a "big fish in a little pond" which is also known as falling victim to supremacy. And I can't go out like that. Not after all I've been through.

Anyway, What do you have in store for the New Year? What have you learned in 2015?

Random Thought #9 On Blindingly Bright Optimisim

I know what you're thinking. You're probably thinking that I'm starting to falter a bit. Well, yes and no. Yes, because I've often wondered if people actually think that I just might be stupid for having such hope for Black people and the situation we're in.  Some of us are still marching, and still praying. Some of us even want to vote for Donald Trump after all of the fuckery we've been through. I've had the misfortune of speaking to one person who was a supporter of his, and one who seemed to let on like he was going to say he'd vote for him.  I couldn't let either one of them go. I've decided to make it my goal to wake them up.


I had been thinking about this for some time, and I've asked myself, "Am I doing too much and asking too much of  myself?  Am I doing the unthinkable? Am I straight up stupid for even trying to go there?  Am I too optimistic for trying to wake up people like this?"


I waffled with the following thoughts:

The Black folks who fall into this group range from the solitary Black employee of (insert any company) to college student, or any Black person registered to vote. Hell, as far as I'm concerned, I could be trying to wake up Clarence Thomas or Ben Carson themselves, and we know some of us see them fools look like they're so asleep that they might as well be flat-lined.


 It's like people are more interested in using Harriet Tubman's quote, “I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” just to provide themselves with the quick ability to throw away the Black person who just doesn't "get it".  


But that's the problem.  People are so quick to claim each other as "lost" that it seems like they're just itching to wash their hands clean of the so called "lost ones" and move on.  And that's not really moving on. That's wanting to be slathered in validation, which is something I can't get behind. So still I push on.  Again, am I stupid for doing so?  Am I opening myself to be hurt? Am I opening myself up to more stress?  Am I causing more damage to  my health?


I don't know. But I can say that it is a luxury to put my feelings before anything here. But my health is very important to me, so I've got to get it better. In order to do that, I've got to get my New Years goals in order as well.  I'm going to have to put all of my multitasking skills to the test, that's for sure. This means less sleep than before, which affects my health.


Do you see what I'm going through, LOL!


Anyway. I'm going to keep going. Nobody said this was going to be extra easy. Oh well. I'm already off to a good start. I've got to keep my head up despite how bleak things can look, and I hope you can too. 

Thanksgiving Post

Yeah. Thanksgiving. One of America's favorite holidays. It's where people have to endure their families, put on appearances, and avoid politics just so they could be guaranteed a spot at the next gathering.

To be honest, it's just a big exercise in phoniness while you're surrounded by food. That's it. People have asked me if I was doing anything for Thanksgiving. I've said the following in return:
"Why do I need to celebrate Thanksgiving? What is there to be thankful for as a Black person in America? We could die just going about our daily business and people expect us to be thankful? For what?! What kind of lunacy is that?

Anybody who says otherwise can kindly GET..(see photo below)

It's batshit crazy. Are we supposed to be thankful for being alive? Should those of us who are alive be thankful some rabid White terrorist didn't shoot us or beat us while protesting?  That sounds like some (to borrow the language from our beloved #WokeCommunity) 'slave foolishness'."

That's why I've been really happy about the backlash regarding the astoundingly hypocritical American reactions towards people not wanting to accept refugees or people perceived as "others"in reference towards Christmas as well as anti Thanksgiving related articles such as, 

Manning: Thanksgiving Myth Creates Fairytale of Land Theft, Betrayal, Genocide,

The Truth About Thanksgiving: What They Never Taught You in School


or what United American Indians call it, the "National Day of Mourning" , which is actually observed as such in Plymouth Mass.

All of the anti Thanksgiving articles, and memes that laugh at Americans refusing to accept Syrian refugees because of "ISIS" have given me life.

And I'll never ever forget this gem:


If there is  something to be thankful for, I'll thank those who are dedicated towards telling the entire truth and not letting their presence get erased. And no. That doesn't include White people because (let history tell it,) they destroyed, looted, pillaged, murdered, raped, stole,beat, and forced their way into everybody else's faces to the point of being considered the so called norm on their terms, and then threw violent, and or insufferable tantrums when people got tired of their shit. 


That is all.

Oh, and also Boycott Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas and any commerce driven holiday and put that money towards Black businesses.

Here's some links, names/websites of businesses, and a Google search result for you in order to get started*:

http://www.blackenterprise.com/lists/be-100s-2014

Some Etsy shop owners:
http://www.blacketsy.com

Beauty Supplies:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/arabellesicardi/blackout-beauty-friday#.lg0WkXvZ6

Black women owned online stores:
http://www.mycoloures.com/2014/12/30-black-woman-owned-online-stores-to.html?m=1

Black Business Network
http://www.blackbusinessnetwork.com/Home/

NOIMOA staple goods
http://noimoa.com/staple-goods-10-ordering-will-begin-november-1-2015/

Clothing:
http://www.blackownedclothing.com

Black Opal Cosmetics

Magnolia Cosmetics

Black Radiance

Iman Cosmetics

a blog

http://blackownedbusiness.me/

headwraps and clothing

100 Black-Owned Restaurants and Bars in New York City and Brooklyn

Sex shop

Organic hand made soaps and bath oils

Negash Apparel and Footwear

Skin and Hair products


 We've still got this. We can do it.
*No, none of these are mine, nor am I getting commission (I wish). I did this because it's necessary.

On Constructive Criticism, Combativeness,and Learning

I've learned something. We must not get combative whenever another Black person is critical of another. The reason why is because we have to learn to know the difference between constructive criticism vs trying to start something. For example, if someone posts something that questions Black people's relationship with Jesus Christ, it doesn't mean they're trying to start something. It means they're trying to engage dialogue. However, if they posted something that was meant to castigate and throw stones at those who believe in Christianity and happen to be black in the form of " Hey Black people! (insert disparaging thing here followed up with insults)," someone counters that with a sensible comment, or a question, then I believe it should be looked at as a chance to bring dialogue as long as the conversation doesn't devolve into argument.  There is also a difference between asking a real question vs a fake one. For example, a fake question is "Why do Black people get BET and there is no WET... If I did something like that, I'd be racist".

VS a real question: It has become increasingly apparent that we won't exactly know who and what we're voting for because politicians have a tendency to "put their best face forward", so to speak. That being said,
Is there any way Black people could completely disengage from this current system we're stuck in if we should choose to?"


That being said, there are 2 definitions of the word "argument" (as cited by Google) since the word may be subjective depending on the person. :

1. an exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one.
"I've had an argument with my father"
synonyms: quarrel, disagreement, squabble, fight, dispute, wrangle, clash, altercation, feud, contretemps, disputation, falling-out;  informal tiff, row, blowup, rhubarb; vulgar slangshitstorm
"he had an argument with Tony"

2. a reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong.
"there is a strong argument for submitting a formal appeal"
synonyms: reasoning, justification, explanation, rationalization; case, defense, vindication; evidence, reasons, grounds; counter argument
"arguments for the existence of God"

Sure, the fake questions mentioned above would definitely fall into definition number 2, BUT the trick is knowing which are real and which are fake, and how the questions are framed. I believe one must need to know how to spot said questions and  respond accordingly.  In order to do so, I have gone to the African American or the Black People categories on Quora (a website where people can ask questions and get educated answers), and I found so many obviously fake questions that range from the ones mentioned above, to those littered with multiple syllabic vocabulary words.  Here are a few examples complete with like responses:


What are some good arguments against the idea that a pathological black culture is to blame for problems in the black community?


Which minority races enjoy affirmative action in the United States today? All non-whites or a selected few?

Why don't African-Americans find a better way to protest?

Why are black on black shootings not protested as much as police involved shootings?

Why do black people in the US get angry so quickly?

This approach could be used with media as well. For example, this Fox News video had been circulating around where Glenn Beck openly admitted that the founding fathers are indeed Black:

Note the sly implications in the video. They try to low key excuse themselves from the entire thing and then tell White people that today's Black people have no excuse for being bitter and not excelling in The States since the founding fathers were able to do so. They gloss over all of that while claiming Blacks adopt the "victim narrative," but they conveniently forget about all of the rules that were put in place in order to keep Black people in the perceived status: Please see the following: The One Drop Rule, Jim Crow, and everything that happened during the reconstruction. Some tactics include "whitecapping" which was the taking of Black farmers land and selling it to White farmers. It was essentially, the trail of tears for Blacks.  

This begs the following questions:

Why do the KKK still exist and why aren't they dealt with the same way we deal with so called terrorists in other countries?  Is it because "the losers" (as Glenn Beck put it) sought revenge against Black people after all and more of these uncovered pieces of history involving them  or no?  Is this why Black history was hidden and not taught in schools?  It seems to me that  ALLL of that was done because of manufactured supremacy.  That being said, focusing on "merit" might not work in their favor because that "merit" is rooted in manufactured supremacy. All of the laws put in place in order to keep supremacy alive means that so called "merit" wasn't earned. It was given. 

So what's to be done with that merit based on manufactured supremacy, perse?

And the fact they mentioned how those who speak Spanish are being intentionally kept (paraphrasing) from learning English and comparing it to modern day slave times without the whips was interesting. Modern day slavery could not be based on whether or not people learn English. They're solely speaking on assimilation as if that would magically fix things because if we all learned exactly what they're trying to say, they wouldn't like it at all. In fact, whenever we question them and or take charge, they'll be the first to balk and sully our names and character through various means. The video is another form of respectability politics and vouching for Republicans nestled snugly into some divulged truth they fancied themselves as so fortunate in giving to their audience and viewers that was neatly packaged with Fox News approved books to purchase. 

Think about that for a second.Honestly, all I could do is take everything in that video, laugh at the agenda and file it away in my mind because I think once we really hone our craft, while learning to recognise every meaning behind their words and actions, and moving accordingly, doing so might be something every Black person could use to train themselves to understand, see, and properly respond to foolishness in a complete and thorough manner on and offline.

We've got this.

Ferguson Church Burnings..A Few Questions

So far, there have been five churches in the Ferguson area that have been burned*, and they've declared that arson is the culprit.  That's a good thing, right? But most of the media has been silent on the matter. This doesn't exactly surprise me due to how the media has been as of lately, however I have a few questions:

Why don't these churches have security cameras? Churches are sprinkled throughout Black communities all across the country, but the ones that got burned don't seem to have any video footage of the folks who burned them. One would think that they would want their patrons and their buildings to be safe. However, I get the fact that churches are supposed to be open, sacred and safe on their own because of "Jesus" and whatnot, but these church burnings are proof that Jesus isn't really looking out for them like that. Now I can understand why the church buildings in the 50s and 60s not having any because they didn't actually have the technology for video cameras and such, but now? 

I know I sound like an asshole right now, but I'm serious. All that money devoted to Jesus and they don't have the ability to provide security for their buildings?! This raises a question I've been asking since 1992, when I was first invited (read as 'forced') to go to church as a kid:  Where is all of the money going? 

When I was going to church, I noticed some of these pastors and their wives show up to service decked out in stuff I know my family couldn't afford.  And some of these church members have to choose between Jesus, food, and medicine after all the bills are "caught up".  What kind of bullshit is that?!  They mean to tell me that the church can't help those members? After all of the money they gave, they can't extend a hand back to the people they serve?  No matter how you slice it, these are some serious and grave failings.  The church is supposed to serve the people. They're supposed to be able to help members who fall on hard times. They're supposed to care for the elderly, the sick, and alleviate impoverished conditions of the neighborhood in which they serve.  But no. Like many Christian organizations in the United States, they want to retrieve revenue, and lead people into giving it to them.  That being said, I don't exactly know the status of these particular churches, all I know is that none of them have presented any video evidence of the churches in the process of being burned.

I know what you're thinking... How can they show video if the building had been burned down? Well, there are many security options that would allow a person to view their property while away from the building. It could be viewed by using software on a computer, and they could be viewed using a cell phone. In fact many have services where you could log into a website designated for your security system and you could view the information any time, day or night. I wonder if anybody had anything like that set up, I mean after all that happened in the 50s and 60s, you'd think that would have been the route they would have taken in order to protect those particular Houses of God.

Now I understand what good comes out of the churches, and all churches aren't corrupt. And I know the majority of church members aren't using them for personal luxuries. BUT I'm just saying the churches should have some sort of video surveillance in order to make sure the churches continue to be safe havens for the people at the very least. As for me, I'll be waiting to see if there is any actual video footage. If not, then I can't really feel bad for the churches because they've bilked so many dollars from poor Black people only to finance themselves that I just don't have the energy to give a damn about the churches like that. If anything, this should cause a lot of Black people to drop out of Christianity all together because Jesus really isn't on their side if he doesn't want them to be safe, in good health, and spirit while worshiping him. I'm just saying...

*Update. The number of church burnings has increased to seven since this blog entry was written.

Random thought #7 I Don't Get Outraged Anymore

I keep seeing articles about how (insert Black person was treated/discriminated against/killed by cops/media slanting, etc) and I don't feel anything anymore. If anything, all of these situations tell me the following:

where not to buy from

where not to live

how we really need our own media outlets

how we need to change our standards regarding what makes a quality product/where my money should go

how we need our own schools so we could change our own learning requirements

how we need to stop looking for jobs through White controlled companies

so on and so forth.

I have learned the following. These "rage porn" articles only keep us angry and frazzled because as long as a people are angered and frazzled, we can only be reactionary. If we stay in reactionary mode, nothing could get done in an organized fashion. Real change can't happen. All we'll keep doing is the same thing that has proven ineffective. We need to look at this in a logical manner and apply our tactics as such.

Don't get me wrong. We have every right to be angry, but what good is straight and constant anger going to do for us? It only baits us into behaving accordingly. I could see why people choose to look away from all of this. It is exhausting,  infuriating, depressing and dehumanizing all around.

However, I don't want people to keep their head out of it. I mean that it inspires me to find solutions in order to counter all of the bad, such as learning to keep your money and spend it where it counts,watching what you've learned and knowing how to constructively teach those lessons. Changing standards regarding what we've been taught and how to re-direct what mainstream has suggested.

I seriously believe we've got this, and this is just the beginning. The future is blindingly bright for us, and they know it, which is why they spend so much time worrying about us.

We are doing beautiful things. All of us.


We've got to keep going.

#JusticeOrElse- The Good, The Bad and everything in between #FergusonTaughtMe

I know what you're thinking. Here come this Negro ready to hate on all this Unity without having a plan their damn self.  

I understand that sentiment.

However, I am not that Negro. I like the idea of Black people coming together no matter which way. That's a good thing. BUT in the past, I've noticed these mass methods of coming together (as in being present and accounted for via marches,commissions, and groups,etc) can result in infiltration. And nothing's easier to infiltrate more than marches. Just look at the Civil Rights Movements, Occupy, Black Lives Matter, Ferguson and the current police brutality themed marches out there at this current moment.   But the key difference lies in our current access to technology. It's easier to start a movement, gain momentum, and make things better. But it's also easier for people to infiltrate with the click of a button.

As someone who has been active during all of this police brutality mess, I have seen what it looks like. I know how people move try to gain influence. I've mentioned several of the different ways throughout this blog. BUT there is one specific thing that I haven't really touched on. 

Apparently, people are texting "unity" to 99000 in order to follow the #JusticeOrElse movement.

Let me repeat that. "People are texting "unity" to 99000 in order to follow the #JusticeOrElse movement."

Now to the average person, it looks like an attempt at solidarity and networking. But to the infiltrator, it's a paper trail. It could be used to tap into people's phone calls and keep track of them and what they are doing. Take a look at what happened with Ferguson. People were signing up to receive the Darren Wilson verdict before the rest of the people were to receive it. They were joining commissions and were putting their faces out there. Look at how many people have been arrested since then. They've started watching Black people more than before, to the point where a woman claiming she was a Black Lives Matter activist was arrested for threatening to kill White people on youtube. Please note where the author credits a website called No Thiefs Allowed for turning her in to the FBI at the end of the article.

These people have dedicated time, effort and money into investigating us. Please check out the following screenshot where several people from Ferguson were arrested and their records have been compiled:  The source is from a website called "random topics" dot org, which appears to be in working in conjunction with No thiefs dot com. Please pay attention to all of the case numbers and files they have. This means they have access to police records and are archiving them for their own purposes.

Page 2  from Random Topics even shows they have access to mail coming from other people, in particular, Heather DeMian from Ferguson*. Please note the very first image is a letter from the Ferguson County Clerk named, Christine  Lanfersieck.  <<Click the archived link for a closer look. 

I'm telling you... They aren't playing around. They are watching us. When I say "they" I'm not just including the random person. They have contacts with the FBI (as seen with Eye Empress's situation) as well as local politicians. Not only that, it is possible they've contacted Eric Holder, which could explain why the DOJ report only focused on traffic tickets and not the rampant corruption in the region.

You're probably thinking that this is nothing new. They've been watching us forever. Yes they have, and there isn't much we could do to stop them. BUT we can't keep marching like this.

We gave their airline and travel companies our money to finance the travel to Washington DC

We booked reservations in their hotels.

We spent good money in their establishments in order to "demand" justice or else we'll stop spending our money with them.

|Let me say that again.  We spent good money in their establishments in order to demand justice or else we'll stop spending our money with them.

This took place after we gave it to them -_-

We've been "demanding" justice since the Civil Rights movement.

We flocked to Washington DC to hear Louis Farrakhan speak to us again. This could have been done without financing flight and bus rides. This should have been done using our own media outlets. I believe we should continue creating and building among each other as we have been doing. These mass conference calls through their companies which are designed to handle said calls (who knows if people could have these lines tapped) , and these get togethers are tired. And expensive, and costly to the psyche as well as our well being. It's as if we are marching right back into the system at every turn.  And the interesting thing is that even though Louis Farrakhan is correct on a lot of things, he also subscribes to respectability politics and supremacy. Supremacy and respectability politics are killing us. 

As for me. I've been building. I've also marched and I've come to a conclusion on the purpose of marching and why.  Please don't get me wrong. Marching and gathering in large public groups raises awareness to a certain point. That's it. After awareness is raised, something else should be brought to the table. Something different.  Marching is looking like the elixir that soothes the elderly and "God fearing" right now. It gets the elderly and those subscribing to supremacy to sit down somewhere by giving them jobs or something to do within a framework that was never designed for us in the first place (which is exactly what the Civil Rights movement did for some people). And adding your personal information to these things is not okay. That means we should always see subscriptions from outside sources and anything required to put our personal information into something as a red flag. This is not limited to reserving a flight, bus ticket , hotel accommodation and/or car rental to a high profile event that's being watched and viewed as terrorist activity with such intensity like this.

That being said, I am not trying to shame people for marching. I'm just trying to say that marching alone doesn't cut it. At least some of us should be doing other things like creating our own (insert empowering,uplifting thing here) and the intent should benefit US and only us because if we don't do that, then we will never have any power. We'll just be begging those who have no real interest in us for it. And marching alone actually takes us away from doing what we need to do by occupying precious time (and money) that could be used to further our causes when the funds could have been re-located to the outlets we've already started and are working to maintain. That's it.

TL;DR   Watch what you say on the internet. Watch what you do, and watch what they do. Keep grinding and do what you do with finesse. Make it foolproof and airtight. They are waiting with baited breath for you to slip up. They are itching to lock you up for anything and everything. And they are not above infiltrating your attempts to better yourself and your people. They killed Sandra Bland for being "uppity" and the whole 'thief' narrative is used to justify our deaths by the hands of the various branches of highly influential people they keep in touch with. They will not rest until everybody involved in wanting accountability for the corruption in St. Louis (as well as the rest of the country) is locked up and or killed for attempting to 'destroy our American way of life' (as noted in the mission statement of no thiefs dot com) ).

You have every right to be angry. But anger alone keeps us running and vulnerable. We have to learn and stay focused. Why do you think they spend so much time, effort and money into keeping us in the place they designated for us? They do it because they fear of losing their "American way of life." And what is their American way of life might I ask?  Supremacy. Supremacy is their way of life and it is threatened. If they could lock us all up, they will definitely try.

Stay safe. And please. Find a counsellor and or someone to speak to that has your best interests in mind. Don't listen to anybody who tries to trip you up in some foolishness. Eye Empress and Palmetto Star didn't get that, and it caused them to get caught up. Don't let anger manipulate you anymore. Swallow your pride and talk to someone so you can get that anger out of the way so you can make (or continue to make) something beautiful.

*updated and edited:   the picture of the document was taken by Heather to prove lies about not showing up to court.